Checking Out
Local icon Doscher’s IGA Grocery Store closing after 48 years in West Ashley by Bill Davis | News Editor All the cashiers are leaning on their elbows this late April afternoon, outnumbering the customers. The top and bottom dry shelves are empty on every aisle. Only...
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Built to Last
West Ashley residents Sharon and R.C. Foster have weathered many storms, demonstrate solidarity as a couple, and are one of the strongest Mom ’n Pop business leaders in the Charleston area. They own a PostNet franchise in West Ashley, where they are known for their...
Three’s A Crowd
It will be a three-way race to replace Robert Ford as the state senator representing Dist. 42, with two major party candidates and one Libertarian, in the Oct. 1 special election. A Democrat and Civil Rights veteran who served in the state Senate since 1993, Ford...
Antique “Gasolier” Lights Installed at Magnolia
Eight antique light fixtures have been installed in Magnolia Gardens’ main house as part of a continuing effort to return the nine-room mansion to the style when the house was the scene of lavish parties before the Charleston Renaissance. Seven of the fixtures are...
WAHS Knocks off Colleton County 35-28
West Ashley High School beat the Colleton County Cougars 35-28 last Friday night at Wildcat Stadium to reach a perfect 4-0 record for the first time in school history. The game was a story of two halves as the Wildcat defense held the Cougars scoreless in the first...
It’s Not [m]All Good
One of West Ashley’s main commercial cornerstones has apparently been shaken. This week, Citadel Mall, the 1.1 million-square-foot shopping and dining destination, has entered into foreclosure. According to multiple media reports, CBL & Associates, the mall’s...
Run Against Domestic Violence
A memorial run and crossfit competition will be held in Mt. Pleasant in honor of a fallen West Ashley woman. Two years ago, the body of Amanda Jo Kalman, 25, was found in her Forest Lakes subdivision home, the victim of a brutal stabbing. Her husband has been arrested...
Green Thumbs Up
Twenty volunteers from Blackbaud came to West Ashley on Friday to begin work on the planting boxes on what will be the Charleston Parks Conservancy community garden at the corner of Magnolia and Sycamore roads. The volunteers were taking part in the Untied Way's...
Old Flames
Infrastructure. The word doesn’t evoke the same warm community emotion as planting trees, landscaping neighborhoods, building schools, establishing service clubs or putting the spires on churches. But the basic infrastructures of fire service, police protection,...
Something Wicket This Way Comes
Understanding what’s happening during a cricket match doesn’t get any easier when everyone is yelling alternately in Hindi and Bengali and Punjabi. Or Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Bihladi, or Manipuri. The air is full of Indian languages and cricket balls nearly every...
Grain In Focus
What was life like for enslaved African Americans on a Lowcountry rice plantation at harvest time? For more than a decade the interpretive staff at Middleton Place has recreated the experience of planting, caring for, harvesting and processing the heritage-breed...
